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essentialism

(-iz′əm)

noun

Philos. a theory which stresses indispensable conceptual characteristics and relations of things as opposed to existence as particular experienced actuality

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noun

The metaphysical theory that the essential properties of an object can be distinguished from those that are accidental to it.

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